Migration and Educational Policymaking in China: A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu

by Hui Yu

Overview

By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032289953
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Series:	China Perspectives
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hui Yu (PhD, IOE) is Associate Professor in the School of Education at South China Normal University, China. Dr Yu is an adjunct research fellow at South China Normal University (SCNU) Centre for Fundamental Education Governance and Innovation, and at Ministry of Education-SCNU Institute for Educational Law. His research interest is sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities in the context of rural-to-urban migration in China.

Table of Contents

1 Migrant children’s school enrolment in urban China 2 Fluctuating development of school enrolment policy 3 Tracing educational policy trajectory with policy sociological and Bourdieusian resources 4 Intersection of multiple fields and social spaces framing policymaking 5 Cross-field effects: external influences on policy agenda 6 Discursive practices: inside the ‘black box’ of policy cycle 7 Intersectional logics: local diversities in policy enactment 8 Nature of policymaking and concerns for social justice 9 Being reflexive: policy sociology, Bourdieu and ‘toolbox’ approach

Editorial Reviews

"Yu maps out several interrelated fields across multi-level social spaces in relation to educational policymaking for migrant children in China. These fields include politics, economy, public policy and education."
-Jason Hung, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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